Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willed and innovative men who ran their fledgling airlines with a fierce competitiveness. Among them was C.E. Woolman, who started Delta Air Lines with a pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting airplanes in Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once hid overnight at Hannifin's apartment during an industry feud. Perhaps the most farsighted of them...
...statement following the House's action, Carter praised the "bipartisan, statesman-like recognition that the time has come to turn a new page in our relations with the countries of the eastern Mediterranean... [It] is a crucial step toward strengthening the vital southern flank of NATO." Washington expects that the Turks will reciprocate soon by allowing the U.S. to resume electronic monitoring of Soviet military activity from Turkish bases, which the Turks closed down three years...
...years after the Syrians Lebanon to end its civil war, peace seems as elusive as ever. Last fighting once again broke out between Christian militiamen in the eastern of Beirut and Syrian forces, who the area with rockets, mortars and artillery in an effort to dislodge them. The Syrians have tried to stabilize the country maintaining a balance of power?initially, by moving against an insurgent Palestinian and Muslim left, more recently by attacking pro-Israeli Christians who threaten to partition the country. But for Syrian President Hafez Assad, Lebanon threatens to become a Viet Nam: by pulling his forces...
...were, on the road. On Sunday they'll be in Anaheim and next Tuesday will have a chance to snap at Phoenix, but it really doesn't matter: at this point the only thing that could stop those tasty little devils from running away with the World Team Tennis Eastern Division would be an invasion of the Red Tide. Or maybe just a taste of Red Sox good luck...
Film: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Battle of Algiers. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Science Center...